Microsoft Media Platform – Player Framework

This blog post was authored by Erik Reitan (@ReitanErik), a programming writer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.

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The Microsoft Media Platform team has recently released the 1.1 version of the Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This release includes several Windows Phone 8 updates. If you are building media applications for Windows Phone 8, this framework offers interesting media support.

The Player Framework is an open source video player available for Silverlight, HTML5, and Xbox, as well as Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone apps. It allows you to play both progressive download videos and Smooth Streamingvideos.